In Phoenix, Martin Butler re-engages with the iconic legend of the Firebird — a figure rooted in the 1910 premiere of L’oiseau de Feu by Fokine and Stravinsky — only to disrupt and transcend it. What begins as familiar becomes unfamiliar as the performance strips away tradition and allows a new, visceral physicality to emerge. Butler’s choreography invokes the relentless striving of a body in flight, a metamorphosis that is at once courageous, challenging, and exhilarating. This work reimagines the mythical creature not as an echo of the past but as a present force: vibrant, unpredictable, and kinetic — compelling the audience to witness transformation as both myth and lived experience.
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Martin Butler 